Research on Lime Quarries in Wülfrath

After a long 6 months of getting my dissertation and several articles published, I had the time to really embark on some archival research for my next project. I like to start at the smaller more intimate archives where there’s a lot of local knowledge of the things I want to know. So today I spent the day in Wülfrath City Archives and found some news coverage of lime companies acquiring parcels of land to either excavate or build infrastructure. Two things that struck me - even though they are hardly surprising: The newspapers often praised the natural abundance of lime in the region, and the prices that the quarry companies were paying were considered to be “very high”. First pieces of a puzzle that I will hopefully be able to put together over the next years.